93 Cong. Rec. A4149(1947)
APPENDIX TO THE CONGRESSIONAL RECORD A4149
Under the devoted leadership of James
Roosevelt, the chairman of the California
State Democratic Central Committee, the
people of California are uniting to win.
There have been attempts to discredit
and discourage real organization of a
strong Democratic party. These at-
tempts have been abortive, regardless of
their origin or political sponsorship.
Disgruntled pseudopolitical leaders on
the extreme right and the extreme left
have been discomfitted by the growing
strength and unity of influential Demo-
crats behind James Roosevelt’s leader-
ship. The recent Democratic State Cen-
tral Committee meeting overwhelmingly
approved the official statement on na-
tional and foreign policy outlined below.
It is a statement of principles, around
which all California Democrats can rally
for victory in 1948.
Under unanimous consent, I append
hereto the statement mentioned above:
The statement on national and foreign
policy covers such points as —
' The Democratic Party of California, aware
that developments of modern science have
linked the far corners of the world and
brought ever closer associations on our own
continent, affirm our faith in certain funda-
mental principles.
First. We believe that human progress, in-
dividual liberties, and the "four freedoms” are
most likely to be realized under the Ameri-
can form of democracy.
Second. We believe neither our own people
nor new adherents elsewhere will continue
to have faith in our democracy unless we
prove conclusively that more than any other
system it can secure human progress, indi-
vidual liberties, and the “four freedoms."
Third. We believe that inasmuch as atomic
power can easily destroy all civilization and
humanity, the United States of America bears
the heaviest responsibility in installing
methods of peaceful mediation and settle-
ment for the conflicts of peoples and gov-
ernments.
Believing thus, we feel it is our duty to
state clearly our alarm at domestic legisla-
tion which, under the guise of curbing the
abuses of certain leaders and groups of or-
ganized labor, actually destroys the safe-
guards of economic and social liberty won so
recently by the men and women of labor.
We heartily commend President Truman for
his veto of the Republican-sponsored Taft-
Hartley bill, a measure primarily designed,
not to correct abuses within organized labor,
but to emasculate the legitimate safeguards
of collective bargaining.
We believe also that the people should be
told that under the guise of an attack upon a
labor monopoly, the Republican Party is fos-
tering an ever increasing corporation or busi-
ness monopoly. It is an undeniable fact
that the Federal Trade Commission has
warned of a greatly accelerated pace of post-
war business mergers and has ascribed high
prices directly to them. » * » Monopoly
waxes fatter than ever. Three companies
account for 89 percent of American auto-
mobiles; gasoline prices rise, even at minute
fractional changes, exactly together; four
companies have 85 percent of our structural
steel capacity; four more make all our pre-
fabricated roofing shingles, and 10 percent of
corporations control 90 percent of our cor-
porate wealth. These are the sure signs that
the Republican Party is making an attack
upon labor the excuse for allowing our com-
petitive system to become one of monopoly
at the expense of every little business man
and woman in the country. We, therefore,
urge that the Democratic Party, nationally,
put its full weight behind the legislation pro-
posed by Senator O’Mahoney and Representa-
tive Kefauveb which would put some real
strength in the antitrust acts, and we urge
that the Department of Justice vigorously
prosecute those who are menacing our com-
petitive free-price system. We heartily com-
mend the President for his courage and wis-
dom in vetoing the inequitable Knutson tax
bill; now that the Republican leadership has
reintroduced it in the Congress, we urge him
to stand firm in again vetoing.
The Democratic State Central Committee
of California believes that it has the respon-
sibility to inform the national leaders of our
party of constructive suggestions made in
our State. Surely no man or woman today
in public life has all the answers to the
many complex problems which face us, most
especially in the field of international rela-
tions. We feel that the greatest proof of our
loyalty to our country is to give to President
Truman the benefit of the considered think-
ing of the members of our party in this
State.
We endorse wholeheartedly the President’s
stated principles that:
A. We should do everything within our
power to bring relief to the suffering people
of the world from hunger and economic
want and that such relief should know no
political boundaries.
B. That, as perhaps the only strong credi-
tor nation left in the civilized world, we
should Insure that no peoples should be
forced to adopt political Ideologies of any
nature whatsoever because of economic or
armed aggression against them-.
It is in the spirit of this idealism that
we understand the Truman Doctrine to have
been conceived.
In wartime it may not be possible to fully
take the whole people into the confidence of
the national leadership; in peacetime it must
be done. We therefore urge that the Presi-
dent, the Secretary of State, and all other
qualified officials publicly discuss the full
implications of our foreign policy. The
Democrats of California feel that it was
under the leadership of our party, and here
in our own State, that the United Nations
was born as the key instrument to a lasting
peace. We therefore insist that the strong-
est possible steps and the strongest possible
active policy of cooperation with the United
Nations Organization must come from our
Democratic administration.
We urge that the United States take the
initiative in every possible way for estab-
lishing adequate machinery within the
United Nations Organization for achieving
world peace and the economic recovery of
the world.
Unilateral action in international matters
must be abolished; only by so doing can that
mutual trust among nations essential to
lasting peace be fully achieved.
As the strongest of the nations and the
one whose people have the highest standard
of living, and which by the democratic proc-
esses have most nearly achieved the Four
Freedoms, the United States has the obliga-
tion to maintain bold leadership in support
of the United Nations.
We recognize frankly that some countries
have not yet lost their fears of Old-World
power politics. Russia in particular, strug-
gling to rise from czarist serfdom and hav-
ing suffered repeatedly from aggression, will
be slow in accepting the unselfish idealism
which must be the guiding principle for all
members of the United Nations. However,
we feel that eventually all nations, includ-
ing Russia, must and will repudiate unilat-
eral action and support wholeheartedly the
principle of international cooperation. Any
other course, inevitably means obliteration
by atomic warfare.
Without the threat of war differing eco-
nomic systems will be judged solely on their
accomplishments for mankind; we confi-
dently reassert our faith in the American way
of life.
We endorse the principles of the Marshall
plan both because these principles offer the
most likely prospect for the stabilization of
European life and because the plan itself
clearly falls within the regional arrangements
specifically authorized by the Charter of the
United Nations in article 52. We regret the
failure of the Russian Government to co-
operate with the Marshall Plan and we urge
that she reverse her decision and lend her
Influence and leadership in establishing a
basis of mutual trust among all nations.
We respectfully suggest and urge that a
definite policy for giving the people of the
world factual Information in regard to the
working of American democracy via radio,
the interchange of students and the en-
couragement of visitors, cultural and trade,
to and from our shores should be given a
most prominent place In our program.
We condemn the penny-wise policy of the
Republican Party in curtailing the informa-
tion service of our Department of State, espe-
cially when we realize that it has been merely
proposed that we spend for the selling of
democracy a sum of money smaller than the
advertising budget of many of our national
business concerns.
We reiterate again that the greatest assur-
ance of lasting peace and the activation of
democracy throughout the world will come
from a steadfast and successful ecnomy here
in our own country. The path of unem-
ployment is the road to war.
We make these suggestions in order that
the great body of people in our country de-
siring to achieve world peace and the prin-
ciples of American democracy may know
with certainty the position advocated by the
Democratic Party of California.
Respectfully submitted.
George E. Outland,
Chairman, Policy Committee.
Meretricious Pamphlet Sponsored by
Upton Close Exposed by Former Secre-
tary of War Patterson
EXTENSION OF REMARKS
op
HON. ADOLPH J. SABATH
OF ILLINOIS
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Saturday, July 26, 1947
Mr. SABATH. Mr. Speaker, everyone
of us in America who clings to the ideals
of Thomas Jefferson, of Andrew Jackson,
of Woodrow Wilson, and of Franklin
Delano Roosevelt has been dismayed by
the rising tide of un-Christian, un-
American, and undemocratic bigotry,
discrimination, and prejudice in this
country we love so much.
We have fought two terrible wars to
preserve democracy, and yet within our
own ranks there are those who would
betray democracy.
In those two wars every racial and
religious group in America fought with
equal valor. They shared the burdens
without stint. Every citizen of America
owes an equal duty to his country; but
to every citizen America owes equality of
law and of treatment.
In time of war there is no difference
in the duty owed and discharged by the
Mayflower descendant and the immi-
grant not yet naturalized; the foreign-
born, the sons of the foreign-born, and
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the children of the first families of Vir-
ginia fight and work side by side for the
country they love equally.
There should be and there must be no
difference in peace. That is America.
We cannot touch filth without being
dirtied; and in the days of our cold war
against the Nazi aggressor there were
some who fell into the trap of the Hitler-
Goebbels propaganda line. Now that the
war is over and American democracy has
defeated Nazi abomination, those people
have again dared to resume their feed-
ing of un-American and seditious false-
hoods and half-truths — the Peglers, the
G. L. K. Smiths, the Merwyn K. Harts,
and the vermin press generally — ever
seeking to divide Americans,. and trying
to destroy our national strength and
unity so much needed in these troubled
times.
It is our duty, therefore, Mr. Speaker,
to expose the falsity of these exponents
of hatred whenever they appear.
Upton Close, whose record of opposi-
tion to all things democratic and pro-
gressive needs no further elaboration by
me, recently issued a pamphlet called
the Anti-Defamation League, by one
Robert H. Williams. Mr. Close intro-
duces the pamphlet with the innuendo
that it was prepared by Maj. Robert H.
Williams, Air Reserve, on the basis of
information developed by Williams in
the course of his military duties as a
counterintelligence officer.
It is noteworthy that this publication
of Upton Close was printed on the same
press in San Diego on which Leon de
Aryan prints the Broom; De Aryan was
twice indicted for seditious conspiracy
during the war.
An official letter from the War Depart-
ment completely explodes this false in-
sinuation. Former Secretary of War
Patterson pointed out that Williams is
no longer connected with the military
service and that when he was in lie
Army his work had to do with “weather
and air” intelligence and was not con-
nected in any way with the investigation
of subversive activity. This is what Sec-
retary Patterson wrote to Justice Meier
Steinbrink concerning Mr. Williams and
the Upton Close pamphlet:
War Department,
Washington, May 28, 1947.
Hon. Meier Steinerink,
National Chairman, Antidef amation
League of B'nai B’rith,
New York, N. Y.
Dear Judge Steinbrink: I have had
Closer-Ups Supplement No. 1— the Anti-
Defamation League, by Robert H. Williams,
carefully checked as a result of your letter
of May 1, 1947. I assure you that nothing
contained within that pamphlet referring
to the character of Jews in the Army had
been prepared as the result of any informa-
tion gathered by Mr. Williams from any
official records within the War Department
while he was In the military service. His
statements reflect the thinking of one indi-
vidual and do not express any opinion or
statement of the War Department.
Mr. Williams served as a major in the
Army of the United States (Air Corps) dur-
ing World War II. He was for a time an
intelligence officer in an air squadron over-
seas, but he was not concerned, in that
capacity, with the investigation of Com-
munists or any subversives. His work had
to do with weather and air intelligence.
He is not now a member of the Air Reserve
and is no longer connected with the military
service.
Any statement made by Mr. Williams was
not made as an agent of the War Depart-
ment, but was made as a civilian without
the consent of or prior approval of the War
Department. His statements cannot be
considered as reflecting the attitude of the
War Department.
Under the circumstances the War De-
partment can take no action, unless in the
couise of any statement made by Mr.
Williams he discloses any information of a
classified nature which he has obtained as
the result of his service in the armed forces
of the United States.
Our Army, made up of Catholics, Protes-
tants. and Jews, brought us the greatest
victory in our history, and any statement
which would reflect unfavorably on the
loyalty of any racial or religious group
among them is utterly without foundation.
Contrary to the statement In the
pamphlet, B'nai B'rith has a record for
patriotic service which was recognized by
both Army and Navy citations.
Yours sincerely,
Robert P. Patterson,
Secretary o] War.
Remarks of Hon. Francis Case, of South
Dakota, Before the National Rivers
and Harbors Congress
EXTENSION OF REMARKS
or
HON. FRANCIS' CASE
OF SOUTH DAKOTA
IN THE HOUSE OP REPRESENTATIVES
Saturday, July 26, 1947
Mr. CASE of South Dakota. Mr.
Speaker, under leave to extend my re-
marks in the Record, I wish to submit
the following remarks made by me before
the thirty-seventh convention of the Na-
tional Rivers and Harbors Congress on
May 2, 1947:
Senator McClellan, distinguished guests
and delegates to the thirty-seventh conven-
tion of the National Rivers and Harbors
Congress, we return to the works of peace —
we hope. The assembling of the National
Rivers and Harbors Congress in Washington,
again, is the sign that the National Con-
gress is expected to give to control and con-
servation of our water the attention and the
money that has lately been given to war.
The difficulty is that we have the war to
pay for. We have a national debt of ap-
proximately $260,000,000,000. Before the war
we though it was high when it climbed to
fifty-five billion.
And a second difficulty is that the after-
math of the war is expensive, too. A few
days ago Congress completed action on a
deficiency bill to appropriate $300,000,000 to
supplement the four hundred and twenty-
five million previously appropriated to feed
our late enemies, in this current fiscal year.
And during the past week, the House of Rep-
resentatives approved a bill to authorize
$200,000,000 to supplement previous contri-
butions through UNRRA for war-devastated
countries. And next week, the House will
consider another bill to authorize four hun-
dred million for Greece and Turkey.
That is 300 plus 200 plus 400, or a total of
$900,000,000 within a week or so — for relief
and reconstruction abroad.
The latter part of this month, it is expected
that the War Department Subcommittee of
the Appropriations Committee of the House
of Representatives will begin hearings on the
budget estimates for the civil functions of
the War Department. This is the bill in
which you are interested, the bill which car-
ries the money for the Army engineers to
carry on authorized river-and-harbor and
flood-control projects in the fiscal year be-
ginning July 1, 1947, and ending June 30,
1948,
What are the budget estimates for fiscal
1948?
For rivers and harbors, $101,994,000.
For flood control, general, $163,356,000, plus
thirty million of 1947 balances carried for-
ward to 1918.
For flood control, Mississippi River and
tributaries, $24,000,000.
For flood control, Sacramento River, $1,000,-
000 .
How do these compare with prior years?
In 1940 for fiscal year 1941, on rivers and
harbors, the civil-functions bill carried $67,-
000,009, against the $101,994,000 requested for
1948.
On flood control, general, in 1940 for fiscal
1941, there was appropriated $70,000,000
against the $163,000,000 of new money re-
quested for 1943.
On Mississippi flood control, In 1940 for
fiscal 1941, there was appropriated $30,000,-
000 as compared with $24,009,000 requested
for 1943.
The President's budget for 1948 has been
accompanied by the statement:
“The amount of construction provides for
continuing or completing work on only those
projects for which Congress has previously
appropriated funds for construction. This
does not provide for starting any additional
projects."
That should be kept in mind in comparing
the estimates for next fiscal year with the
appropriations of 1940 for 1941. Heretofore,
the funds appropriated have always embraced
some new construction. What attitude the
Appropriation Committees of the House and
Senate will take on this point. 1 am not able
to say, of course, but that is a point on which
1 will express my own persona] opinion a bit
later.
Of the $101,994,000 requested for rivers and
harbors. $50,000,000 is for maintenance of
existing works, approximately $25,000,000 is
for carrying forward projects on which money
has already been expended, and of the balance
$20,000,000 is for operation of canals, $3,645,-
000 for examinations and surveys, and the
balance miscellaneous.
Of the $163,000,000 for flood control general,
8151.000,000 is for construction. $4,000,000 is
for plans and specifications, $3,500,000 for
preliminary examinations and surveys, and
the balance for maintenance, salaries, and
miscellaneous expenses.
Of the $24,000,000 for the Mississippi flood-
control fund, one-half is for new work and
one-half is for maintenance.
I have not been able to attend earlier ses-
sions of thin convention and I do not know
how much of this information may have been
brought to your attention. I note that the
distinguished senior Senator from South
Dakota, the Honorable Chan Gurney, has
already spoken in behalf of the Senate Ap-
propriations Committee on this subject and
he may have presented these figures. Or,
he may have simply speculated on what the
House committee would do to these Presi-
dential recommendations.
Appropriation bills originate in the House
of Representatives as you know. That is,
in the language of the very able chairman
of the House Appropriations Committee, the
Honorable John Taber, of New York, “we
operate on the budget estimates first.’’
If some of the current columnists can be
believed it might be said that the House
operates on the budget and sometimes the
Senate revives the patient. Be that as it
may, I think the record will show through
